Wednesday, October 13, 2004
MAN WHO DISCOVERED LETTER "$" WINS NOBEL LINGUIST PRIZE
The Nobel Prize in Linguistics went to Langsten Hues today, for his discovery of the letter "$". According to Swedish newspaper "Oofsvelte", Dr. Hues was ecstatic at his Prize, "because that million bucks will really come in handy right now". The esteemed linguist explained that "scientists have always theorized the existence of a letter beyond the 26 known letters, and the letter '$' fooled man for centuries into thinking it was just a variant of 'S', but proof '$' is an actual letter, when it came, was like music to my eyes". Dr. Hues, known among his peers as a bad poet, said that while '$' has appeared in receipts and works of literature, and has been used by millions of kids to spell, for instance, CASH as CA$H, a rigorous proof that '$' was a true letter, with a strange pronunciation all its own, is what won him the Nobel. "It began as a kid, when I saw Victor Borge pronouncing "!" and "?". I knew he was on to something."
